Global Dialogue Institute

Global Dialogue Institute

"If the world is to maximize the incredibly creative power released by the cross pollinating interaction of massive world-wide developments that are bringing about the "global village," and at the same time minimize the potentially destructive forces of these very developments, humankind must quickly and consciously turn its attention and energies to developing and promoting, on all levels, authentic dialogue. It is to that end that first the Institute for Interreligious, Intercultural Dialogue (IIID) and subsequently the Global Dialogue Institute (GDI) were founded. The purpose of the GDI is to promote dialogue in the broadest and deepest sense among individuals and groups of different religions and cultures, focusing especially though not exclusively on the "opinion-shapers" of society, such as scholars, professionals, and institutional & business leaders."

Trustees
Accessed July 2008:


 * CHAIR: Harry Halloran, C.E.O., American Refining Group
 * FOUNDER-DIRECTOR: Leonard Swidler, Ph.D., Professor, Temple University
 * FOUNDER-DIRECTOR: Ashok Gangadean, Ph.D., Professor, Haverford College
 * ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph.D., Professor, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
 * Jacqueline Cambata, President, Phoenix Chemical
 * John Coleman, President (emeritus), Haverford College
 * Albert Doering, Esq., Miller, Dunham & Doering
 * Michael Durney, Lotus Corporation
 * Jonathan Granoff, Esq., President, Lawyers Alliance for World Security
 * Murray Levin, Esq., Union Internationales des Advocats
 * Thomas Lynch, Professor, Louisiana State University
 * Janet M. Morgan, President, Media Minds
 * Frederic Mummert, President, Raison d'Etre
 * Michael Olson, Esq., Executive Coordinator, Caux Round Table
 * Daniel Pipes, Director, Middle East Forum
 * Howard V. Perlmutter, Professor, Wharton School of Business
 * Edward Plocha, Vice President of Development, Bryn Mawr Rehabilitation Hospital
 * Gerhard Spiegler, President (emeritus), Elizabethtown College
 * Albert Wood, Founder, Middle East Forum


 * Webmaster: Ingrid H. Shafer, Ph.D., Professor, University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma
 * GDI Newsletter Co-Editors: Lillian Sigal, Ph.D. and Ingrid Shafer, Ph.D.
 * EXECUTIVE COORDINATOR: Uli Kortsch, C.E.O., Global Partners

Contact

 * Web: http://global-dialogue.com

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